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Japtok Martin |
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Growing up ethnic [[electronic resource] ] : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction / / by Martin Japtok |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism |
Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism |
Judaism and literature - United States |
Maturation (Psychology) in literature |
African Americans in literature |
Ethnic groups in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
Youth in literature |
Jews in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-195) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man; Chapter 2: Fanny Herself and Plum Bun: Art and Ethnic Solidarity; Chapter 3: Brown Girl, Brownstones and Bread Givers:Reconciling Ethnicity and Individualism; Chapter 4: Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Literary Responses; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Growing Up Ethnic examines the presence of literary similarities between African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories in the first half of the twentieth century; often these similarities exceed what could be explained by sociohistorical correspondences alone. Martin Japtok argues that these similarities result from the way both |
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